We need a new settlement for communities across the country
For communities up and down the country the last few years have been extremely tough. The current Tory…
Child Poverty
Milburn says Labour’s minimum wage target not ambitious enough
Alan Milburn, the former Labour minister who now chairs the commission on social mobility and child poverty, has…
Getting the OBR to track child poverty would mean governments could no longer ignore it
David Cameron pledged to lead the most family friendly government ever. But this has turned out to be…
Number of people living in absolute poverty rises to almost 11 million
New official figures from the Department for Work and Pensions show that the number of people living in…
Cameron is too busy trying to redefine child poverty to tackle it
Under David Cameron’s child poverty is rising not falling. And the government’s failure to tackle child poverty leads…
Cameron has presided over an astonishing and avoidable rise in poverty
Working parents are simply not earning enough to escape poverty. That was the recent, damning verdict of the…
Labour must not forget the economic costs of child poverty
By Alison Garnham As the Chancellor prepares the ground for this month’s spending review and Labour starts to provide…
This should be our national shame
A week today the Chancellor will stand in the rarified surroundings of the Commons to give his budget…
The Child Poverty Crisis made in Downing Street
47% of children in my constituency of Manchester Central live in poverty. That’s 47% too many. With the…
We need to keep up the pressure over child poverty
In 1999 Tony Blair made a big and bold commitment to eliminating child poverty within a generation. This…
